The Dancing Baby meme is also called what two-word baby nickname?

The Dancing Baby meme is also called “Baby Cha-Cha.” The nickname refers to the animated infant’s cha-cha-style dance and distinguishes the clip from later remixes and imitations.

The character began as a 3D baby model developed by Viewpoint DataLabs and an animation made for Character Studio, a plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max. The demonstration was shown at the 1995 SIGGRAPH computer-graphics conference, before the software was released commercially in 1996.

The clip spread through CompuServe forums, email, websites, and an animated GIF conversion. A widely circulated version was associated with Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling,” whose repeated “ooga chaka” vocal led to another nickname: the “Oogachacka Baby.” That name is related, but it is not the answer asked for here.

The Dancing Baby became one of the earliest widely recognized internet memes and later appeared in mainstream media, including the television series Ally McBeal. It is often remembered as a video, but the most influential online version circulated as a looping animated GIF.